The Telephone Call

This music clip tells two stories. The first one is about a small beaver who is hunted by a vicious telephone receiver. The hunt results in a fight to death on a balcony. The second story shows a talking rabbit who is calling a human and gets on his nerves.

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In 1986 Kraftwerk released their album Electric Cafe. One of the tracks was called Telephone Call and the video for this track was made in an old-fashioned b/w look. The people in the video also didn't show much emotion (typical for Kraftwerk).

My version of Telephone Call is a parody of the original video. Borrowing some of the ideas from it, the clip shows almost non-moving faces and deep shadows. Although there is a German language version of the song, I used the English one.

Telephone Call is a real music video and was cut according to the music. Some video effects were used like stroboscope and pixelisation.

The only black/white film by Pinguin Television and the only one in English language.

The video looks much more old-fashioned nowadays: there is no cell phone!